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"Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... how the world still dearly loves a cage."    Maude. – From lifelong fa...

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This graphic illustrates the grandfather paradox, a secular koan demonstrating the inability of the human mind to grasp reality. A...

"You may not believe in hell, but hell believes in you." (A message from this station and Fudo Myō-ō.) (Ph...

"A man is never lost at sea." Ernest Hemingway (Photo courtesy of Paul Harrison and Wikimedia Commons.)

Though it's generally unknown to Western Buddhists, Russia is one of the formative homelands of our religion. Not only has Buddhis...

The Sword of Righteousness has a D handle. Wu Ya's commentary: Only true warriors can lift it. (Photo of a Land Gi...

"If you meet the Buddha in the road, kill him." This well-worn Chàn koan, attributed to Linji Yixuan, has the sting befi...

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” I've recently been pondering this Philip K. Dick l...

'Way back in 1973, Paul Simon released a song called One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor . The lyrics are classic Pa...

Huike said to Bodhidharma, "My mind is anxious. Please pacify it." Bodhidharma replied, "Bring me your mind, and...

"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, because you might die tonight." Ajahn Brahm (Photo of rec...

We choose our religious convictions. This fact may be a bit occult; we tend to imagine we've been convicted or converted to our fait...

Let's clear up a pernicious gaffe. The fundamental tenet of Darwinian theory is not that the strongest survive. That's be...

Everything happens for a reason, but the reason doesn't happen until everything happens. (Earlier meditation here .) ...

A British, American, and Canadian ship captain are having a drink together on an aircraft carrier. The British captain says, “Gent...

"It is better to light one candle than to hit the wax museum with a flamethrower." - Wisdom I collected from the wall of a uni...

So another visit to the annals of early Buddhism has yielded a further bit of provocative trivia: subitism is very old. Possibly as old...

This may be the most Zen thing I've ever seen in a Japanese garden. (And I've seen a lot; been fanboy of that Zen-soaked traditio...

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln...